Monday, March 30, 2009
A Detailed Django Tutorial: Blog Basics Part
Jeff Hui begins what appears to be the first of a lengthy, detailed series in getting your first (blog) Django application up and running. It follows the path of the official Django tutorial, introducing projecsts versus applications, etc., and Hui also brings some of his own experience and opinion ("the syncdb flaw') to the post, making it a nice addition to the collection of getting started tutorials that already exist.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Static Google Map Generator
This isn't a truly pluggable reusable Django app (meaning no Django related code is required, this could be used on any XYZ powered side) but it's a nice utility for anyone looking to implement static maps on their site and it's terrificly easy to implement. My favorite feature is the lazy loading of the dynamic map, to increase
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Djoosh - Fulltext search using Woosh
Hot of the heels of what I believe is a new pure python fulltext search indexing solution named Whoosh comes Djoosh - a reusable django app which provides extensible, pure-python fulltext indexing for Django models using the Whoosh information-retrieval library. Project homepage -> http://whoosh.ca/
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Django-shapes
I've yet to dive into GeoDjango completely but I will be in the not so distant future. So compiling a list of reusable apps is always a good idea because you don't want to build the same thing twice. Django-Shapes allows admin users to upload an export shape files. The project page offers some further insight into current features and potential additions.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Introducing django-imagehandler
Ludwig Pettersson released a rad reusable app for managing your apps photos but with the additional feature thats includes an admin cropping tool, as well as utility template tags. Go grab it on gihub: http://github.com/luddep/django-imagehandler/tree/master
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
New Django ecomm solution open sourced
The product website is linked below for this new Django ecomm solution which boasts itself as "A lightning fast shop for django". Released under the BSD license, it's always good to see these types of additions to the community; go check out the features list here: http://www.getlfs.com/en/start
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
PHP To Django - Lessons From Our Migration
One of our listeners noted a few lessons learned from making the migration from PHP to Django with great results - "Overall I love Django and I cannot imagine going back to PHP, the next step is for me to sell Django into the Company..."
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Smorgasbord - Support Multiple Template Languages
After reading about SmileyChris's (Chris Beaven) smart {% if %} template tag on Simon Willison's blog today I followed the comments to this interesting project - Smorgasbord. The project defines itself as "...makes it possible to use multiple template languages in Django, even for 3rd party applications that don't use your choice of template language natively."
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Django Dash 2009
Django Dash is a competition for Django developers - noobs, veterans, etc. And for those looking for a little kick in the arse to start that project they always wanted to start, looking to collaborate with a fellow peer, or maybe just trying to get feet wet with Django - there's always a good reason to join the Django Dash. There's also always an excuse to not do it (I used the latter myself last year). Last year the project was a success, although I remember a few bumps in the road. I'm sure they have it all worked out this year which ischeduled for May 30 - 31. I'm going to try and be a part of this interesting idea, and if you have the time as well then hopefully I'll see you there! Follow on twitter as well - http://twitter.com/djangodash/
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Django-chronograph
Weston Nielson released django-chronograph today, a reusable application allowing users to manage django-admin commands via the web. Beyond simply executing commands at X interval, Nielson provided customize scheduling to run at any interval desired (employing python-dateutil's rrule module), and also execute commands manually via the admin as well. There's also logging of stdout and stderr output if so desired, visible via the admin as well. This is one of those apps I'd expect to see adopted widely by the community. Great job.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Django Full Serializers
New serialization python module which extends Django's built-in serializers, adding 3 new capabilities inspired by the Ruby on Rails JSON serializer; looks terrific, and a descriptive introductory post. The namespace could use some work - "wadofstuff".
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Django-springsteen and Distributed Search
Looking to implement a search on your site? Thinking about integrating Yahoo! BOSS? Well, Will Larson (www.lethain.com) has started the beginnings of a Yahoo! BOSS powered search implementation for your Django project. Plus it has one of the coolest Django app names of recent memory (courtesy of Justin Lilly's creative project title contribution). Larson goes a step further an introduces the pipe work for a distributed search solution as well. As always, a very thorough, and well written post form Larson.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Django-tagging-NG released
A generic tagging application for Django projects, based off django-tagging but includes tagging with multilingual, synonyms and hierarchy.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Washington Times releases open source projects
Shortly after our recent callcast with Corey Oordt, Deputy Internet Director for the Washington Times, today the team is making it official by publicly announcing their open source projects: django-projectmgr, django-supertagging, django-massmedia, and django-clickpass. They are being released under the Apache License, version 2.0.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Revised 1.1 release plan
Jacob Kaplan-Moss posted an update on the Django developers Google group earlier today that the Django 1.1 release will be delayed. The target date is now April 13. Quick notes - model validation will be dropped and all other "must-haves" will be moved to "maybes." More details on the jump.
Brian Rosner said…
uthaman, Yes. We are holding an internal sprint ...
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uthaman said…
Are you guys going to get your non-iTunes ...
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codekoala said…
Rock on!! This is like Christmas all over ...
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